Apostrophe: the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word
Personification: Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects
Synthesia: A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
Hyperbole: Using exaggeration for emphasis or effect
Understandment: To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out
*Litotes: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
*Metonymy: Is the use of a word for a concept with which the original concept behind this word is associated
*Synecdoche: Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Paradox: A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Oxymoron: A figure of speech that is seeming like contradictory
Allusion: An incidental mention of something
Metaphor: A figure of speech where a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable
Similie: A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
Implied Metaphor: A less direct metaphor
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based
Personification: Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects
Synthesia: A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.
Hyperbole: Using exaggeration for emphasis or effect
Understandment: To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out
*Litotes: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite
*Metonymy: Is the use of a word for a concept with which the original concept behind this word is associated
*Synecdoche: Figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Paradox: A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Oxymoron: A figure of speech that is seeming like contradictory
Allusion: An incidental mention of something
Metaphor: A figure of speech where a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable
Similie: A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
Implied Metaphor: A less direct metaphor
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based